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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food Systems
29.05.25Photo credit: Calf with trash; Vrindavan, India. Apercoco Since 1974, World Environment Day has mobi…
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Food Policy Priorities for A Changing World
28.05.25IFPRI’s 2025 Global Food Policy Report reflects on 50 years of progress and examines priorities…
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Gaza’s worsening food crisis and troubled path to reconstruction
27.05.25By Sara Gustafson and Rob Vos May 27, 2025 As the Israel-Hamas conflict rages on in…
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AI sparks a new agricultural revolution in the Global South
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On a sunny April morning in Nairobi, the United Nations compound buzzed with more than…
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Empowering dryland communities through drought early warnings to enhance resilience
14.05.25<p>Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that signific…
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International Day for Biological Diversity 2025: Agrobiodiversity for People and Planet
13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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Developing operational guidance for scaling agricultural innovations in One CGIAR
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Food security
Scaling innovations has become a top priority in One CGIAR. This means to enable the…
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Gift supports Cornell’s Tanzanian cassava efforts
04.02.21An anonymous gift of $2.65 million to support Cornell and partner research in Tanzania will…
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IITA strategically positioned to contribute to the One-CGIAR agenda in sub-Saharan Africa
04.02.21IITA embraced the One-CGIAR initiative in the past year because a unified CGIAR will be a more …
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Ugandan coffee farmers enjoy increased yields through CSA technologies despite COVID-19 pandemic
04.02.21The IITA Uganda Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) Program supports the Ugandan Government in its com…
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Researchers reveal factors responsible for Tilapia consumption preferences of low-income consumers in Egypt
04.02.21Egypt is among the top aquaculture producers globally, and tilapia alone accounts for 47.7% of…
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Scientists convene to reveal new research and tools for combatting a deadly banana disease
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Food security
“Pandemic” has become a household term over the past year, but uncontrolled disease outbreaks do…
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Model: Rising seas may not drive population away from Bangladesh’s vulnerable coast
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY VALERIE MUELLER, ANDREW REID BELL AND HONOR DEARLOVE Climate change-driven sea level rise is…
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PIM News: January 2021
02.02.21-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In this issue, covering January 2021, we are happy to share our recent and upcoming…
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Cues to making crop improvement in Africa gender responsive
02.02.21A cluster of activities are helping make The Accelerated Varietal Improvement and Seed Delivery of…
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Breaking barriers to uptake of improved sorghum in Burkina Faso, one social media post at a time
02.02.21A small number of farmers pioneering seed production of a novel sorghum variety in Burkina…
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Where is my crop? Data-driven Initiatives for Rice and Cassava Analysis
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Big data
Globally there is an explosion of digital data across all sectors of society, and agriculture…
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Emerging Scientist: Laura Khor
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Big data
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Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Laura Khor, a WorldFish Research Fellow, earned her Master of Science in Aquaculture from Universiti…
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Q&A with Luka Wanjohi: Achieving more with less, the power of statistics
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Big data
Luka Wanjohi is a regional senior knowledge management associate at the International Potato Center …
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World Wetlands Day 2021: the unknown potential of wetlands in nature-based solutions
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Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Happy World Wetlands Day! Wetlands are "natural harvesters" of water and, by definition, sites wher…
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Study: Feeling relatively poor increases support for women in the workplace – but men still don’t want them making household decisions
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Gender equality
Feeling poor relative to others can spur families to support women in pursuing work outside…
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Alliance Women in Science: Then and Now
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Biodiversity
Today we celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, an opportunity to…
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Viet Nam uses the Land-Use Planning for Multiple Environmental Services framework for its provincial green-growth action plan
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Environmental health
Lam Dong Province in Viet Nam’s Central Highlands makes the transition to a ‘green’ or…
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How online decision dashboards can make evidence more accessible for decision-makers
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Food security
There is often a disconnect between science and decision-making, as the data needed to support…
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